American Stasi

This isn't just about using government resources to harass the Regime's political enemies -- it's also about diverting those resources away from their intended purpose, monitoring suspected terrorists.

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Quiet Skies eats up an astonishing amount of resources: an Inspector General's report about the program in 2019 "identified $394 million in funds that could be put to better use," meaning nearly half the Air Marshals' budget was being wasted. LaBosco says this is no surprise. "Think about the overtime, the vouchers, the overnight travel, the per diems. Think of all the wasted resources that we so desperately need right now... We're not going to find a terrorist following Tulsi Gabbard. We're not even looking for the bad guys anymore."

As I'll note later, this is all part of Obama's "Whole of Society" effort to "Combat Violent Extremism" by shifting law enforcement and intelligence resources away from hunting his pals in the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Iran and directing them to harass and surveil normal patriotic US citizens who don't believe in his vicious Marxist cause.

Ed Morrissey

That's exactly right. Want to know how we're allowing assassins to slip into the country? It's because the security apparatuses we built after 9/11 have been hijacked by political activists in office to punish their opponents. 

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